BRIDESMAID REVISITED 54For the third time in the past four years, Greg Norman came tantalizingly close to a triumph at the Mastersby Bob Verdi

KJ! 60Guard Kevin Johnson of the Phoenix Suns gets a big lift from making assists, on and off the basketball courtby Rick Reilly

REFLECTIONS ON THE GAME 74When the national pastime is your work, your passion is your profession. Five people tell of lives in baseballby Mike Bryan

DEPARTMENTS

Letters 4Scorecard 13Inside Baseball 66For The Record 95Point After 96

Cover Photograph by Gregory Heisler

PHOTOOZZIE SWEET

HOW SWEET HE WAS!: Sugar Ray Robinson, who died last week at 67, had style in the ring, where he won six world titles, and out of it. Here he's in the pink in front of his Harlem realty office (page 96).